Commemorative Event

The Typist with the Webley - Winifred Carney Commemoration 2021 Winifred Carney was a suffragist, a teacher and a trade unionist, a member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she stood alongside James Connolly and her other comrades in the GPO in Dublin in 1916. Originally from Bangor, Co. Down, her family moved to the Falls Road when she was a child. Educated at the CBS school in Donegall Street, she later qualified as a secretary and as one of the first Belfast women to become a shorthand typist. Her education and skills she put to good...

Margaret Skinnider was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, a suffragette, a republican, socialist, trade unionist and a teacher. Born in Scotland to Irish parents, she first became a suffragette, heavily involved in the fight for women's rights, and in Cumann na mBan activity, before emigrating to Ireland in December of 1915. In advance of the Rising she smuggled detonators and other materials into Dublin as part of the preparations. During the Easter week of 1916 she played a full combat role as a sniper, until she was wounded multiple times by gunfire from British forces. She remained active during...